In the light of the new development for a regulatory regime for scientific and
educational space activities by Space Licensing and Safety Office (SLASO), this
project was established to assess the background, status and prospect of the current
Australian educational space activities that might require authorisation under the
Space Activities Act 1998. The project investigated the appropriateness of the regime
as well as any problems or issues that educational space activities might face when
applying for approvals.
The current educational space activities that might require authorisation and that is fit
in the scope of this project were: Mars Gravity Biosatellite and Hyshot Program (both
from University of Queensland), JAESAT (Queensland University of Technology),
BLUESAT (University of New South Wales) and the Spiders in Space Program (Glen
Waverley Secondary College, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and
Melbourne Zoo).
The Spiders in Space Program (an initiative of Spacehab) which was developed to
experiment the spiders spinning webs on board the Columbia space shuttle had
finished off its activities following the explosion of the space shuttle. There was no
desirable data obtained. It was interesting to find out that the collaboration project
between Glen Waverley Secondary School...